I think it's an awful drink, to be honest with you.

I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.

A lot of our tracks have sounded a lot better than I thought they would because of recording, mixing, and because I probably didn't hear it that way. I'm not a songwriter.

For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called.

I think it's an awful drink, to be honest with you.

We always work at least a month to six weeks before we go on the road, usually for something like eight to 12 hours a night. It took six weeks to do it this time. We just play virtually everything we know.

I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once.

I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.

People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud.

It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.

The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.

It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it.

I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.

When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.

Mick's not good on his own problems, but he's very good at other people's. He's been wonderful over the years. I don't mean I ring him up every week, but he's fantastic.

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?

Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that.

I saw Al Foster with Miles Davis the other week. It was beautiful. But, the whole thing was, Al Foster played as well as everybody else, but all of them were quite brilliant under Miles Davis' direction.

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.

To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.

I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it.

I don't need to hear Bill to go through a song. I need to hear Keith to go through a song. I know Bill will be playing what I'm playing anyway. I need to hear Keith because it's all there: the time, the chord changes, and all the licks you have to follow.

You'd imagine Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn't.

I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them.

Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.

I think you get to a point where you watch something just to enjoy it. I don't think it's really done so that you're supposed to feel, Oh, he's the most wonderful drummer. I think the whole lot is what's more enjoyable.

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

Leaves are falling and the garden is mostly asleep, and the house smells like pumpkin and apple everything.

There is that interdependence and that strength you get from a team, that the group is greater than any individual.

Lord defend me from my friends I can account for my enemies.

When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.

I'm missing a knuckle, it's crushed inside my hand at the moment.

Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

Spreading manure is a great way of bringing yourself down to earth.

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.

Girls especially are fond of exchanging confidences with those whom they think they can trust; it is one of the most charming traits of a simple, earnest-hearted girlhood, and they are the happiest women who never lose it entirely.

It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

I think 'Y&R's future is contingent upon the ratings. Obviously, none of the soaps are kept alive for the sake of loyalty. It's all about ratings. It's show business. Period.

It's through the test, that we find our true strength.

Talking is still cheap. You need to express youself, speak your mind, say what you mean, and mean what you said.

Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this.

The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters.

I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny.